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I seriously cannot wait for this book to arrive in the mail.

by dogas 16y ago

nkassis 16y ago
Same here, I've been reading the ebook version but I want a thing I can grab and take everywhere. (Reading on my phone isn't ideal). But the book is good enough that I don't mind the small screen. The last book I spent reading entirely online was the Harry Potter Deathly Hollows leak. 700 crappy photos of pages ;p (I bought 2 copies of the book too, I don't feel I've done anything wrong).
- vb6 16y ago
  2 copies. If we all did that think how much money JK Rowling would have. Although legally you are a pirate what you really are is a patron of the arts.
  - kiba 16y ago
    I am sure JK Rowling would still make a lot of money from American if the US had not signed a copyright reciprocity treaty with UK in the late 19th century. I imagine that Rowling would sell her manuscript to US publishers in an auction house before putting her work on sale globally. Who knows? She probably make a few million dollars on the low side and much more if the US publishers are real crazy about it. Heck, this lead to a premises of my next novel(for the moment, I am writing a novel on a bunch of subversive robots). An American publisher/pirate decides to get into the mechanical computer business. He purchased an invention from a mother of an inventor and proceed to violate the inventor's patent by selling it to the average UK consumer, and then the world, ushering in the computer revolution.
- khafra 16y ago
  You're about to read another book online: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M... Written by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer
  - spokey 16y ago
    For what it is worth I'm pretty sure Land of Lisp author Conrad Barski is an HN user as well. I think we talked at an HN meetup (but I don't know his id offhand). If you are reading this Conrad, congrats! The book looks great and seems very well received. I'm curious, does a "slashdotting" create a noticeable blip in traffic or book sales anymore?
    - callahad 16y ago
      Conrad is http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drcode http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drcode His post announcing the book is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935
    - drcode 16y ago
      Yes- The slashdot book review took my Amazon rank from ~1700 down to ~550 for a few days (which is a great rank for a niche-y programming book...)

I seriously cannot wait for this book to arrive in the mail.

by dogas 16y ago

I seriously cannot wait for this book to arrive in the mail.

Same here, I've been reading the ebook version but I want a thing I can grab and take everywhere. (Reading on my phone isn't ideal). But the book is good enough that I don't mind the small screen. The last book I spent reading entirely online was the Harry Potter Deathly Hollows leak. 700 crappy photos of pages ;p (I bought 2 copies of the book too, I don't feel I've done anything wrong).

vb6 16y ago
2 copies. If we all did that think how much money JK Rowling would have. Although legally you are a pirate what you really are is a patron of the arts.
- kiba 16y ago
  I am sure JK Rowling would still make a lot of money from American if the US had not signed a copyright reciprocity treaty with UK in the late 19th century. I imagine that Rowling would sell her manuscript to US publishers in an auction house before putting her work on sale globally. Who knows? She probably make a few million dollars on the low side and much more if the US publishers are real crazy about it. Heck, this lead to a premises of my next novel(for the moment, I am writing a novel on a bunch of subversive robots). An American publisher/pirate decides to get into the mechanical computer business. He purchased an invention from a mother of an inventor and proceed to violate the inventor's patent by selling it to the average UK consumer, and then the world, ushering in the computer revolution.
khafra 16y ago
You're about to read another book online: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M... Written by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer
- spokey 16y ago
  For what it is worth I'm pretty sure Land of Lisp author Conrad Barski is an HN user as well. I think we talked at an HN meetup (but I don't know his id offhand). If you are reading this Conrad, congrats! The book looks great and seems very well received. I'm curious, does a "slashdotting" create a noticeable blip in traffic or book sales anymore?
  - callahad 16y ago
    Conrad is http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drcode http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drcode His post announcing the book is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935
  - drcode 16y ago
    Yes- The slashdot book review took my Amazon rank from ~1700 down to ~550 for a few days (which is a great rank for a niche-y programming book...)